Re: Unable to print "/dev/lp0": Permission denied

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• Subject: Re: Unable to print "/dev/lp0": Permission denied
• From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:00:26 +0000
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:18:30PM +0200, Francois Massonneau wrote:

> E [22/May/2006:14:53:36 +0200] [Job 21] Unable to open parallel port device 
> file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied

This is most likely due to bug #192548:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192548

As a work-around, you can do this (as root):

  chmod 0700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel

Tim.
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